Bug 312967

Summary:	app-arch/pigz[symlink] causes vim to fail to open .tar.gz
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Dror Levin (RETIRED) <spatz>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	axiator
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335852 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888777
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Add support for '--' option terminator

Description Michał Górny archtester

2010-04-03 12:23:50 UTC

When having pigz with symlinks installed, trying to open .tar.gz archive with vim results in following error:

pigz abort: invalid option: --
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

To be compliant with gzip, pigz should support '--' option terminator. I'm attaching a simple patch adding the support for it.

Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester

2010-04-03 12:24:13 UTC

Created attachment 226391 [details, diff]
Add support for '--' option terminator

Comment 2 Dror Levin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-04-03 16:55:46 UTC

I've contacted upstream about this issue and was told that it was already fixed for the next version, so we'll just wait for that.

Thanks for the report.

Comment 3 Michał Górny archtester

2010-09-06 17:49:24 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> I've contacted upstream about this issue and was told that it was already fixed
> for the next version, so we'll just wait for that.

Could you nag upstream a little? It's 9 months since last release already.

Comment 4 Faustus 2011-10-08 22:44:07 UTC

Suggest closing this bug as duplicate of bug #335852, and maybe reopening that bug instead.

Comment 5 Dror Levin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-12-18 20:56:36 UTC

This should be fixed with pigz-2.1.7. Please test and reopen if needed. Thanks.